If you followed my experiments you can see that I did one Directory Experiment few months ago when I started developing my very own web directory network. Now thugs kinda changed and I can hit you up with some updates that kinda spoiled my day.

As you know I tested 1000 directory submissions on 3 websites to see what the approval rate is going to be and now i got the results. The unfortunate thing is that I got only 160 directory listings (I‘m not sure how many directories that is because one directory may have more than 1 listing showing up as backlink). This really spoiled my day since I paid around $60 for that and its really a big waist of time and money. Also I‘m kinda disappointed that most of my other websites got almost the same approval rate which is considered quite low. This makes me re-think my strategy and see what else we can do to get more backlinks to power the new directories... read more..

I feel like the King of the Web! Today I found out that I got one of our company websites included in the DMOZ! That‘s a groundbreaking event that is really amazing both to me and my partners. The thing is that we were trying to get DMOZ listing for the last 6 years and after applying so many times we finally got one listing up.

I was about to say that the DMOZ is dead and now they proved me kidn‘a wrong. Its still breathing (from time to time) but its far from being really successful project. The fact that it took me 6 years to get one website up is really weird and I‘m not sure what this means. Now I know that most of my websites are not that high quality but still some of them are proven to be really good and deserve to be listed.... read more..

Ihaa.. after 4 years talking about getting myself involved in the Real Estate Business I finally managed to open my first Real Estate Website. This website is from my Database Driven Website series, but nevertheless its going to be one really profitable multi-dollar-a-day website. The Real Estate Agent database contains more than 1,000,000 licenced professional real estate agents which I‘m going to share on few steps throwout the year ( I don‘t wont the big G to kick my ass for spamming 1 mil pages overnight he he he .. ). The ImRealEstateAgent will be a free website offering easy access to local real estate agents for each city/state in USA helping people locate the best real estate brokers in their area for both sales and purchases.... read more..

Don‘t ask! I‘m turning into cost-effective promotion/advertising guy and I‘m making printed postcards for opening ceremonies and special holidays for our company. Now the 17th Precinct in Manhattan, New York City is opening its doors after massive renovation and our company designed the memorial wall - black granite laser etched with artwork wall and large bronze cast plaque with the names of NYPD officers passed away in the line of duty.

This is actually the second memorial wall I designed after the NYPD Traffic Control Division in downtown Manhattan in 2005 and I‘m getting really good at it.... read more..

Yep, today we did a major security upgrade on one of our servers due to one serious CMS security fault which allowed "unauthorized person" to write on other user‘s accounts and add stuff. This so called hacker was actually a worm virus that was spreading thru Linux Server networks and eventually came to us.

Hopefully we found it quite quickly (10 minutes after first contact) and disinfected the system, but that didn‘t fix the whole issue because the security exploit allowed it to infect it again 5 minutes later. That made us push this major update and isolate each account so that this problem would be fixed, but actually fixing one thing made tons of other issues.

Now the sad thing about my work is that when you fix one thing, you have to break something else and this simply sux. In this case most CMS systems require PHP global variables to be OFF, but some require them to be ON. The thing that made my day like a living hell is that 50% of our clients use global registers on the CMS systems and the other 50% can‘t run their CMS‘es due to this register .... read more..

I just posted below that I‘m so stuck with work, and guess what happened on top of everything? Our DELL PowerEdge Server almost blew out and one of the hard drives with our most important information failed. Thanks GOD we had Mirror RAID on it and we didn‘t lose any information. Actually that MIRROR saved my ass and it showed how important and life saving this small investment can me in times of trouble.

Now I normally won‘t go with Mirror RAID since it requires two hard drives to operate as one - in our case we have 2 x 120GB that work with 120GB, but in this case one is the mirror of the other and when one fails the other one continues to work without even notifying you that a problem occurred. Actually yes in my case our Windows Server 2003 is so out of date that it didn‘t even notified me that one of the hard drives failed and this kind‘a sucked, but I know its my fault since I didn‘t monitor it recently.... read more..

A week or so ago, my buddy buddy Alex finally managed to finish and publish the new Classic Lines Fitness website, but now he is experiencing some weird problems with the search engines and that‘s why I‘ve decided to give him a helping hand in exchange for some pimping services to hook me up with some of the amazing looking girls over there. I guess we made a deal with him and I‘m really happy for that.

So what about the fitness. The Classic Lines fitness is as the name says some really cool looking classic lines on those (man I can‘t even find the appropriate word for that) amazing looking chicks. I‘ll just say that one thing is for sure, if they start accepting guys as members I‘ll most definitely join, but unfortunately classic lines fitness in va is only for girls aka ladies and actually that might cause a problem. I might try to pretend I‘m instructor there and enjoy the view (which most probably means that I‘ll have to give him a bigger favour in order to hook me up with such position) but the rewards are something I do want to get my hands on...... read more..

I‘ve just started working on one quite large and very interesting article labeled "The Online Money Making Machine Guide". As the title describes, I‘m trying to put down one quite comprehensive article or maybe a bit more like a guide on how to build money making machines a sort of MFA but a bit more user and search engine friendlier that regular MFAs

I‘ve been working on this type of websites for quite a while and I‘ve finally managed to make a good scheme to make few bucks on the site by building website blogs with AdSense in mind. This type of websites do not make a lot of money - few dollars a day, but they don‘t really require any time or work, because the setup and initial articles can be done in less than 4 hours and after that you just watch you AdSense drinking your beer.

For this article I wanted to use some actual data as reference points and I‘ve decided to build a brand new website (blog actually) and describe in details how I did it and what happened in each point in time until I start earning money and later on. I guess that‘s going to take few weeks and even maybe a month until I get the whole thing earning money but I‘m not in a hurry and this data is going to help quite a lot as evidence not like other similar articles where the data is totally artificial..... read more..

Some of you had already seen my websites collection - on My Websites page. If you did, then you most probably sow a huge collection of Wrestling related Domain Names and few miserable websites that promise to be finished soon. Yes I own a huge amount (about 30) high quality wrestling related domain names. I‘m going to tell you one little secret.

In the beginning of 2003 I became the webmaster for one fairly large non-profit wrestling association. Actually that was my first large website support job and I got really passionate about it. When I took their website it was made of few JPEG images and looked like shit. Funny or not, this organization was the host for the 2003 World Championships in Freestyle wrestling which was the biggest wrestling event in the world (each year) and they didn‘t even have a single page saying that thing on their website. Yep, I took care of this website like a little baby and grew it up within the years and now is one of the largest wrestling websites in the United States.... read more..

I mentioned in the previous post that I made a really critical review on one webmaster and unfortunately for me he "asked" his friends to try to get me banned from AdSense by Click bombing my AdSense websites. This is totally wrong behaviour and almost got me banned and now I‘m going to explain you how to defend yourself again such threats as I was able to survive it and not get my AdSense Account Banned.

First, What is AdSense click-bombing. Click-Bombing is when a malicious user enters your website with the intent to massively click AdSense ads with the sole purpose of getting the owner of the web site‘s AdSense account banned. In such events, the AdSense CTR goes sky-high as the bomber clicks hundreds of time on the ads displayed and therefore rises flag for AdSense SPAM. AdSense Spam comes in two natures. If you click your own ads or get someone to click your ads. Both cases are strongly forbidden in the AdSense Terms of Use and therefore you can get your AdSense account banned and loose all the available funds...... read more..

Hello all, I‘ve just finished reviewing the fist three websites on my newly developed blog. This blog is totally dedicated to webmasters and their pursuit of higher quality websites. The website is all about better quality and how to improve your website to be more valuable to your visitors and also how to be more search engine friendly. Currently this service will be done free of charge, but very soon as I get more content up and running, I‘ll start offering Paid Review-Me Services for your websites. As you can see if you visit the website WebReviewerBlog.com that I‘m making full scale Web 2.0 and SEO review that takes a lot of time. Also as additions to the review I‘m adding recommendations on how to improve stuff that is not made really well so you can get the maximum out of your website...... read more..

If you check out my previous post on Praying to Google for Higher Pagerank, you can note that I’m trying to figure out a nice cost-effective scheme to boost website pagerank. I’ve been thinking all day long on how much money it will cost me to open 23 web directories and make full scale web promotion with directory submissions and paid blogging in order to make them reach PR4. The basic idea was that when they reach pr4 I’m going to offer paid directory submissions to all the directories until I return my investment and then sell them to cover the expenses for their development, but now I turned my head to one other possibility which seems more flexible and could earn quite more money than by selling directories.

My primary calculations for the promotion costs on each directory in order to reach pr4 was around $90 to $120 UDS, but in reality when I sell them I won’t get better price than $200 for each and that’s not very nice return of investment. Therefore I’m going to make one interesting experiment to see if this will bring more pr and help me earn double, and maybe even triple.

Instead of opening 23 directories, I will open 23 blogs. Those blogs will cost me around $90-$120 (same as directory) to promote to PR4, but a blog can have also a directory as Sub-Domain, and therefore I will spend another $90-$120 in promotion of the Sub-Directory. This will total in around $180-$240 per blog... read more..

A friend of mine commented the fact that most of us (seo‘s) got stuck our heads in Google‘s Ass and we forgot the most important rule in SEO. We almost turned Google into God and worship him for better rankings and higher page rank. The thing is that content is king and without content even the best SEO can‘t do anything.

It‘s true. In our search of Google ranking algorithms, criticizing and analyzing we forgot that without strong content we cant do anything! Now I‘m turning back myself into my primary mission continue building high quality content rich websites.

My newest project is to build 20 website directories each with custom design and promote them until they get PR4. Then I will start offering Link Building Services and fill up at least partially those directories with high-quality paid links. After some descent period I will sell those directories at even more reasonable price...... read more..

Yes, Its true that many webmasters that used some not really ethical money-making-techniques did get the warning "your AdSense account will be closed" email. That is simply one of the many efforts for increasing the web quality by Google.

The main reason for banning so many people is the sole reason that MFA Websites with Google AdSense Arbitrage are driving mass amounts of traffic and the low quality MFA websites are generating very high CTR (Clickthru Rate) and this is causing very low ROI (Return of Investment) for the AdWords Advertisers. The sole action of closing such sites is one of the biggest efforts from Google to increase the quality of their AdWords advertising program and lower the advertising costs for many advertising clients and therefore try to attract many new advertisers for their network.

Now the question is should I be afraid of this? Yes I do run some MFA websites but I don‘t do any AdSense Arbitrage and all my traffic comes from organic listings or banner ads which is totally natural and the people that come to my websites are not forced in any way to click on the ads (yes the low amount of content is a reason for high CTR but my statistics show that I don‘t have higher CTR than 40% and average of $30% which is pretty much flag for MFA)..... read more..

In the webmasters business links are gold. Having more links means that the website will be receive a lot of traffic and most probably will high rank on the search engines. Yes, that's what I thought also when I started a experiment campaign with WordPress Theme Sponsorships. I purchased/sponsored 3-4 theme designers to make some very nice themes and distribute them to the wordpress theme download sites. This cost me about $500 and it was supposed to bring so much link-juice that I can finally push my blog to PR5.

But what happened in reality? Yeah, as always, reality is quite different. Search Engine Spam Algorithms are detecting such mass linking campaigns and marking them as Search Engine Spam - they decrease their value to a very small value or nearly zero and basically they become nearly worthless. You can check out this thread in DP discussing Matt Cutts and the Paid Links..... read more..

Yesterday a university friend of mine asked me to help her do some SEO for her Bulgarian attorney at law because he had brand new website and he had some issues getting indexed with Google. She said that his primary problem was that when he Googles Gugushev he finds the website of his previous employer and his own website is missing from the top results. That‘s quite typical for brand new website, especially when nobody knows about is and there are not backlinks pointing to is and therefore the Search Engines don‘t index the content simply because they don‘t know of its existence. ... read more..

Two days ago I was finally able to get my Website Directory to work. This is great achievement because its a wild combination of SEO features that I didn‘t have too much experience with and I‘m glad to get my hand on. The Website directory is powered by SEO Website CMS Web Directory Module and works quite well.

As you know I‘m the team leader for the SEO Website CMS development and my website is mostly used as test drive area for the new features. The SEO Directory is really nice and with a lot of functions like deep reciprocal link verification and link condom protection detection which will be able to help webmasters quickly discover link exchange cheaters.

Also yesterday we started the work on the Directory Friendship Network which will automatically distribute website listings to each directory participating. This will be primarily used as a quick promotion tool for newly developed websites. This feature is only available thru the SEO Website Directory Module and if you don‘t have it installed you won‘t be allowed to participate in the network.... read more..

It was about time to get some good content management system and make website updates less pain the ass and they are with conventional html pages. As you probably see (if I still haven't finished updating it) the website is still a bit messy because I didn't have the time to finish transfering the content from the previous version to this one. At least its so easy to work and post new stuff with this content management system that I'm really happy that I finally made my mind to transfer!... read more..